Sentence examples for nobility of man from inspiring English sources

I smell a rose and it gives me two paragraphs of rapture about the instinctive nobility of man.

Each grasped, in the unflinching gaze of the other, a silent acknowledgment of the nobility of man, especially as manifested in work, the work that purified the soul the way steel is purified in the smelter.

He is the progenitor of a modern view of the world that looks askance at Enlightenment pieties, like the unchallenged certainty of reason or the natural nobility of man, and whose only escape route is inward.

Their ideas were, in his view, "utterly crude and unintelligent," but their character moved him: "The brotherhood of man is no mere phrase with them, but a fact of life, and the nobility of man shines upon us from their work-hardened bodies," he wrote in his so-called "Ökonomisch-philosophische Manuskripte aus dem Jahre 1844" (written in 1844; Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 [1959]).

They rise again ("Three-Five-Zero-Zero") and, at the end of the trip sequence, two tribe members sing, over the dead bodies, a melody set to a Shakespeare lyric about the nobility of Man ("What A Piece of Work Is Man").

Like his screenplay for Spike Lee's "25th Hour" (based on his own novel), "Troy" is fundamentally a story about treachery and brotherhood -- about the fallibility and fragile nobility of men.

So when they talk of abolishing the House of Lords that fountainhead of ritual that has kept alive the concept of hereditary nobility of men and the wearing of breeches and wigs well into the 21st century–it is hard not to take notice.

That vast numbers of McGovern's fervent supporters in his 1972 Presidential campaign were unaware of most or all of this — and that ordinary voters, on the whole, knew nothing of any of it — says a lot about the naïveté and the nobility of the man and his campaign.

That vast numbers of McGovern's fervent supporters in his 1972 Presidential campaign were unaware of most or all of this and that ordinary voters, on the whole, knew nothing of any of it—says a lot about the naïveté and the nobility of the man and his campaign.

The heroism of aristocrats becomes the nobility of ordinary men and women.

David has some fanciful Grapes of Wrath-like notion of the nobility of the working man.